On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:44:51AM -0800, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-02-18, Brent Bice <bbice@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 02/18/2014 09:13 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Taking a look here: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-02/index.html > >> we see 5 spams archived yesterday, and 4 so far today, and many in past > >> months. > >> > >> What can be done to keep these spams out of the archive? > > > > Make it a moderated list... (though I'd also offer my condolences to > > the people nominated as moderators) > > Since the list is backed by Mailman, there is a less extreme option: > restrict posting to subscribed email addresses. This won't prevent all > spam, but will cut down a lot. People will still have a harder time > emailing the list, but it'd be even harder with a moderated list, so > restricting to subscribed addresses may be a reasonable compromise. We'll move the list before to a different host before we restrict access or moderate the list. It's an open public list, and it is going to remain that way. I don't know if anyone has noticed, but a large amount of the spam is directed at the deprecated linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx list aliases. Kill that alias, and a large amount of the spam disappears. FWIW, from the perspective of someone who has a lot of lists directing email at him, the XFS list is no worse than most others. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
